Tinkering School Summer Day Camp
Tinkering School, 682 Schofield Road, San Francisco, CA 94129
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Tinkering School Summer Day Camp includes tool training, building with wood, tinkering, working on art projects, exploring the Presidio, and playing. Campers may also take part in Live Action Roleplaying (LARP) that uses padded foam equipment made to look like swords and spears, and that can include sports, drama, and tabletop role-playing games. Art activities can include projects using charcoal and oil paints, with both realism and abstract art.
• Ages: 5–16 years old
• Schedule: Monday–Friday day camp sessions during summer 2026, from June 22 to July 31
• Price: Tuition ranges from $750–$850 per week, with aftercare available for $130 per week and a $25 multi-week discount on the 2nd and additional weeks
Tinkering School Summer Day Camp is part of Tinkering School, which was founded in 2005 by Gever Tulley and is celebrating 20 years of “think.make.tinker.” Tinkering School states that it believes kids are more capable than they know and gives them real tools to solve real problems, with an emphasis on learning through doing, making mistakes and learning from them, collaborating, making friends, and trying harder than usual. Tinkering School is a project of the Institute for Applied Tinkering, a non-profit organization, and “Tinkering School” is a trademark of Tinkering Unlimited registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office. The program includes Young Tinkerers for 5.5 to 8-year-old campers, Wild Arts, and LARP for 8–16-year-old campers, and Tinkering School also offers chances to tinker after school, during the summer, and on weekends.
In Young Tinkerers, 5.5 to 8-year-old campers begin their week with tool training and have built projects such as a bridge. In the Tinkerers program, campers are trained to use power tools and work in groups to build projects that they dream up and design, including past projects like a 25-foot-tall dancing marionette, a NASA-style space mission with launch tower, rocket, and mission control, a human-sized foosball table with suspended campers as the ball kickers, lifting themselves into rafters, cars they can steer, and humongous robots that deliver flowers. Wild Arts offers a mentored environment for both mentor-led and child-led art projects, supports campers who want a place to do art as well as those who want to build specific art skills, and includes a mix of guided lessons and time for personal exploration. LARP is for 8–16-year-old campers and creates a shared story of fantasy adventure in which each player acts as a character they create, using padded foam equipment made to look like swords and spears.
Last updated June 14, 2026.
• Ages: 5–16 years old
• Schedule: Monday–Friday day camp sessions during summer 2026, from June 22 to July 31
• Price: Tuition ranges from $750–$850 per week, with aftercare available for $130 per week and a $25 multi-week discount on the 2nd and additional weeks
Tinkering School Summer Day Camp is part of Tinkering School, which was founded in 2005 by Gever Tulley and is celebrating 20 years of “think.make.tinker.” Tinkering School states that it believes kids are more capable than they know and gives them real tools to solve real problems, with an emphasis on learning through doing, making mistakes and learning from them, collaborating, making friends, and trying harder than usual. Tinkering School is a project of the Institute for Applied Tinkering, a non-profit organization, and “Tinkering School” is a trademark of Tinkering Unlimited registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office. The program includes Young Tinkerers for 5.5 to 8-year-old campers, Wild Arts, and LARP for 8–16-year-old campers, and Tinkering School also offers chances to tinker after school, during the summer, and on weekends.
In Young Tinkerers, 5.5 to 8-year-old campers begin their week with tool training and have built projects such as a bridge. In the Tinkerers program, campers are trained to use power tools and work in groups to build projects that they dream up and design, including past projects like a 25-foot-tall dancing marionette, a NASA-style space mission with launch tower, rocket, and mission control, a human-sized foosball table with suspended campers as the ball kickers, lifting themselves into rafters, cars they can steer, and humongous robots that deliver flowers. Wild Arts offers a mentored environment for both mentor-led and child-led art projects, supports campers who want a place to do art as well as those who want to build specific art skills, and includes a mix of guided lessons and time for personal exploration. LARP is for 8–16-year-old campers and creates a shared story of fantasy adventure in which each player acts as a character they create, using padded foam equipment made to look like swords and spears.
Last updated June 14, 2026.
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